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Noun embarrassment has 4 senses
  1. embarrassment - the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
    --1 is a kind of     shame
    --1 has particulars:
     self-consciousness, uneasiness, uncomfortableness; shamefacedness, sheepishness; chagrin, humiliation, mortification; confusion, discombobulation; abashment, bashfulness; discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment
  2. embarrassment - the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"
    --2 is a kind of     emotional state, spirit
  3. embarrassment - some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"
    --3 is a kind of     trouble
    Antonyms: disembarrassment
    Derived form: verb embarrass1
  4. overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment - extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
    --4 is a kind of excess, excessiveness, inordinateness
    --4 has particulars: redundancy, redundance
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